Publisher's Synopsis
Award-winning novelist Ruth Rendell presents a chilling novel of obsession and violence.
Two years ago, he had been a promising young novelist. Now he barely survives in a near derelict cottage with only his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla--the rich, unstable girl with everything she needed, and a husband she wanted dead. The affair was over. But the long slide into violence had just begun....
